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TITLE

Love and Sex in a Totalitarian Society: An Exploration of Ha Jin and George Orwell

AUTHOR(S)

Parascandola, Louis J.

PUB. DATE

June 2005

SOURCE

Studies in the Humanities;Jun2005, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p38

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

This article examines the connection between George Orwell's book "1984" and Chinese novelist Ha Jin's "Waiting" by focusing on the subjects of love and sex. The author assesses the nightmarish visions of the future presented in Orwell's totalitarian societies as opposed to the much closer memories of Ha Jin's past in the revolution in China. He states that the question about the impact of such state-driven, anti-humanitarian societies on individual freedoms has remained in these seminal works.

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24777624

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